[tor-bugs] #25137 [Obfuscation/Censorship analysis]: Tor blocked in UAE

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#25137: Tor blocked in UAE
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 Reporter:  mwolfe                           |          Owner:  dcf
     Type:  task                             |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium                           |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/Censorship analysis  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                           |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  censorship block ae              |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 Replying to [comment:27 mwolfe]:
 > On Sat 24 Feb 18, at about 4 pm GMT, Snowflake flaked out in the UAE.
 Working fine at 3:30 pm GMT, unable to connect at 4 pm. Meek still works.
 I have not tried bridges from bridges.torproject.org. I downloaded 3, but
 always try the menu items first. obfs4 is now blocked, and snowflake seems
 to be blocked, but Meek works. If Meek stops, I'll try the private
 bridges.
 Are you really sure that Snowflake is blocked? Some notes however: 1)
 snowflake is still experimental, and there's a bug with it where it
 reaches 100% CPU usage and , that may lead in some cases to it stopping
 working, 2) there is still a very low number of people who run snowflake
 bridges, 3) since snowflake is essentially WebRTC maybe they're actually
 blocking as well other WebRTC traffic? 4) can you access the snowflake
 domain front, i.e. www.google.com?

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